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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Ingram: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to his answer of 11 March, Official Report, column 442, how many professional scientists and engineers of each category were employed at each grade in each of his Department's agencies in each year since 1991.[29837] Mr. Howard: No professional scientists or engineers have been employed by the United Kingdom Passport Agency or the Fire Service College in the period in question. The numbers of staff in these categories in the Prison Service and the Forensic Science Service are set out in the following tables. Figures are not available in the form requested for 1991 and 1992, nor in the case of the Prison Service for 1993. Forensic Science Service _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Grade Discipline 1993 1994 1995 1996 3 Forensic science 1 1 1 1 5 2 2 2 0 6 3 7 7 7 7 60 -- -- -- Senior scientific officer 139 -- -- -- Higher scientific officer 154 -- -- -- Scientific officer 104 -- -- -- Assistant scientific 85 -- -- -- officer -- Senior forensic -- 196 196 187 scientist -- Forensic scientist -- 141 155 154 -- Assistant forensic -- 206 177 269 scientist Total -- 548 553 538 618 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Prison service _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Grade 1994 1995 1996 Engineer Grade 7 1 1 1 Engineer senior professional and 5 5 5 technology officer Engineer higher professional and 4 6 7 technology officer Engineer professional and 10 11 10 technology officer Engineer chemical SPTO 1 1 1 Engineer civil Grade 7 1 1 1 Engineer civil SPTO 3 3 3 Engineer civil HPTO 2 2 7 Engineer civil PTO 4 4 3 Engineer electrical PTO 0 0 1 Engineer electronic Grade 7 0 0 0 Engineer electronic SPTO 0 0 0 Engineer electronic HPTO 1 1 1 Engineer mechanical PTO 1 1 1 Engineer mechanical SPTO 2 2 2 Engineer mechanical HPTO 2 2 2 Engineer mechanical Grade 7 2 2 2 Engineer production Grade 7 1 1 1 Engineer production PTO 1 1 1 Telecommunications HPTO 1 1 1 Telecommunications PTO 0 0 0 Mechanical and electrical SPTO 1 1 1 Mechanical and electrical HPTO 0 1 1 Mechanical and electrical PTO 2 1 1 Pharmaceutical SPTO 25 26 32 Pharmaceutical PTO 1 1 1 Total 71 75 86 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

29837; 278 c21-2W

Session

1995-96

Subjects

Executive agencies Civil service Government departments Home Office Staff HM Prison Service Forensic Science Service Engineers Scientists

Contains statistics

Yes